The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is one fault, not unfrequently charged against the Conservative leaders, of which certainly not even the faintest imputation has ever been thrown upon the Whigs—the want of appetite for office. The Conservative leaders are thought by many of their friends, especially in the country, to be lukewarm in their efforts for the expulsion of the anti-Protestant Ministry. The feeling which leads to this complaint is a true-hearted and manly one ; but it must not chafe into fretfulness. The Duke of Wellington found it no easy task to repress the eagerness of the troops at Wa terloo, when, from morning to the approach of sunset, they were called on to resist without retaliating. But the great commander knew how to " bide his time ;" and when it came, the long hours of forbearance and self-controul were amply recompensed in a perfect and permanent victory. The plea of the impatient is, that possession fortifies the possessors ; that therefore the longer you leave them, the stronger you make them ; and thateach successive year en ables them to commit more and more waste upon the settled inheritance of the Constitution. Not altogether thus. We feel as keenly as the hottest of theirenemies, the annoyance, the injury, the disgrace, of suffering such a Government ; but we are not insensible to the means of protection which Providence has left in our own hands ; nor can we forget that precipitancy has evils even greater than those of delay. We acknowledge the general truth of the proposition that possession fortifies the possessors ; but there are exceptions, and no exception clearer than the case of a shabby Government. There, we have the well founded confidence, that " upon familiarity will grow more contempt." And the contempt is growing accordingly. Only let it ripen. Do not check its increase by premature interference, and you will find that the nuisance you want to be rid of, instead of becoming stronger, is becoming daily weaker, and hastens to its own undoing. But then the waste they can commit in the mean time—the lopping off, and the rooting up, and the tearing down ! Irreparable waste, indeed, if they could really commit it ; but they cannot. There is a power wielded by the Conservatives which en joins and stays it. A turbulent and selfish body may band up the axe to the destroyer, but a wiser energy in a higher place arrests his arm. Against the representatives of a revolutionary faction, Providence has guarded us by a Con servative Peerage : " That treason can but peep to what it would— Acts Effie of his will." coming into office would have found it a matter of some difficulty, on the indication of an adverse temper in the House of Commons, to apply so soon the screw of another dissolution. The first sessio❑ of a new Parliament, in the first year of the new reign, could hardly have beet cut short without a full trial. There would have been a feeling and a prejudice against such a measure, which would have deprived it of all its use. But if, as we suspect, the people shall be found with us in the approaching year (and if the people shall not he with us all measures are alike in vain), th , m the leaders of the Conservative party, on acceding to office, are placed in this commanding position—that they have the means of first trying whether the existing House of Commons will support them, in which event the necessity of a dissolution will be spared ; and then, if that support be not afforded, of appealing to the people for a more available Parliament. Meanwhile the policy pursued has had a doub!e advantage. It has not only avoided the danger which we have shown to have been attendant on any movement in advance of . the people's wishes, but it his also established in the people's minds the true and im portant impression that the leaders of the Conservatives are not desirous of office except when they can take it under circumstances of personal dignity and public use fulness.— Times. We have extracted from the Scotsman of Saturday last a portion of the report of a speech of Dr. Bowring at a dinner given to him in the northern capital on Wednesday last. We have confined our extract to the subject of free trade, though the Learned Doctor's anecdotes of the pro gress of knowledge and civilization in Syria and Egypt are also highly interesting. Dr. Bowring tells us that he made a convert of the Pacha of Egypt, who, in imitation of us, had his Coru-laws, to the benefit of free trade, and that the consequence was immediately felt in the abundance and cheapness of bread. One of the most striking instances of the advantages of a free trade in food is to be found in Switzerland. The Swiss are, Dr. Bowring tells us, our most formidable rivals in most branches of manufactures. As Switzerland is naturally one of the poorest countries in Europe, and produces only a portion of the food consumed by its large population of nearly two millions, the Swiss, according to the Duke of Wellington, ought to be the most dependent •of all nations. It must be at any time in the power of the King of Wirtemberg, or any of the Sovereigns of the rich agri cultural districts which supply the Swiss with corn, to seal their destruction. Those Sovereigns have only to say, let us close onr frontiars against the exportation of corn to these Republicans, and they must die ; for their own rocky soil produces but a small portion of what they consume. The Swiss would snap their fingers at any threat of the kind ; for they know that it is quite impossible to give effect to it. The Swiss set all the laws of their neighbours at defiance, when those laws are in themselves unjust and im politic ; for, surrounded as they are with nations imposing restrictions on every branch of industry, they contrive not withstanding to send their manufactures into every country of Europe. For a small additional per tentage above their ordinary prices, the manufacturers of Zurich or Basle will undertake to convey goods to the shopkeepers of every neigh bouring state. They know that the grower of corn is as de pendent on the consumer as the consumer is on the grower. But it has been said by the Standard, the English landowner has peculiar burdens—he has to pay the interest of mortgages, provisions for younger children, and be must be able to live as expensively as the rich merchant or manufacturer. This is a droll sort of defence of Corn-laws, and our Contemporary the Manchester Guardian has made good use of' it in an article which we must reserve for to-morrow. It is a delightful thing to be a landowner in a country which patiently acquiesces in such arguments. The foreign landowner is, unfortunately for him, more burdened than the English ; for he has not the same facilities in throwing his children on the State or the Church. Though the children in most parts of the Continent succeed equally to the estates of their parents, yet in practice one of the sons generally becomes the sole proprietor, and the value of the shares of the other children is made a hypothec on the land or houses. There is hardly such a thing, therefore, as an estate not hypothecated ; and in consequence of the fall of prices at the peace, the land of whole provinces was often hypothecated above its market value. But however agreeable it might be to a foreign landowner to throw a part of his burdens en the manufacturers and traders, he has a less accommo dating population to deal with than the English. For pa tience under burdens the English are unrivalled. The two great parties of aristocrats in the Legislature can always con trive to get up some dispute or other to stave off the question of which they most dread the agitation—the Corn-laws. Powerful as the British aristocracy are, this question will one day be decided against them. Under the present Reform Bill, however, Parliament will only consent by some such process as that which led to that measure, though it has not obtained for the people tie benefits they anticipated from it. "It 'was the object of the Reform Bill," says the Scotsman, " to bring the Government into a condition in which the Legislature is returned by an electoral body, limited in numbers, but large enough to embrace the inte rest of all classes, and it would have succeeded if the freemen of the English boroughs, lie longing chiefly to the class now calling for universal suffrage, had not been steeped in corruption. We grant that the,!xclusion of the ballot, and the 501. tenant-at-will in the counties, were se rious errors ; but had the freemen of the English boroughs done their duty like the 101. householders, there would have been sufficie n t f orce i n t h e H ouse of Commons not only to rectify all oversights and mistakes, hut to subdue the insolence of the Peers, and give full effect to the prin ciples of our new Charter." We doubt this. The English boroughs are, for the most part, dependent on the Aristo cracy ; and if' the Scotsman inquire, he will find that num bers of the 101. householders, even in such towns as Ips wich, are not merely afraid to vote according to their con science, but almost .as ready to sell their votes as the free men. The ballot, no doubt, would go some way_ to cure that, though in the smaller boroughs we are not sure that great corruption would not be screened by it. However, be that as it may, the majority of the Representatives of England must always, under the present Reform Bill, he in the interest of the Aristocracy ; and we leave it to impar tial persons to determine what chance there is of obtaining a repeal of the Corn-laws, except under circumstances too awful to be contemplated without apprehension. Yet re pealed these laws will certainly be, whenever corn reaches a famine price, which in the revolution of seasons must happen. In the mean time every opportunity should be seized of attacking the rnonopol:sts, and holding them up as men who legislate on unjust principles for their own special advantage. The sum and substance of all their arguments is this—we profit by the injustice.—.-ilfor,iing Chronicle. Are we then resigned to an indefinite :prolongation of the present discreditable state of our public affairs ? In tolerable—impossible ! We have mobs of Radicals inva ding the Constitution—we have hordes of Dissenters un dermining the Establishment—we have swarms of Papists armed against the Protestant faith—we have a Ministry affecting to moderate all these wild insurgents, yet truck ling to every demand of their madness—and we have neighbours across the Channel exulting in our distraction, and flouting the Ministers who submit to live upon it, vaunt ing that the British monarchy exists butby their forbearance, and watching for the moment when they may pounce upon our weakness. No—a condition like this must not, and hap pily cannot, endure. The exertion which, in such circum stances, the worthier members of society are compelled to make for the preservation of themselves and the State, the bare task of resistance, the mere toil of pumping against the leak, is more than human strength is able very long to keep up. But it may be kept up long enough, we trust and believe, to carry us without material loss through the brief term which, in the course and very nature of things, can be left to this baseless Administration ; and if this may be done, a thousand times rather would we wait for the season when, exhausted of all their resources, they fall of their own weakness, to rise no more, than have been hurried on in the last Session, as some desired, to an attack, which even if it had been successful for the time, would probably have obtained for these Mi n i s t ers, as under Wil liam IV., a long renewal of their lease ; and which, on the other hand, if it had failed, must have given them a great increase of power by its re-action. A few plain considera tions will, we think, be sufficient to make out the truth of what we are saying. In the first place, we have described the Administration as a baseless one. A Government to stand firm in this country, must rest either upon a strong principle, or upon a great party. Now, the only principle on which these Ministers have acted with any thing like constancy is the principle of hostility to the Church ; but that principle so far from being a strong one, is among the chief causes of their, weak ness. It is not gaining, but losing ground ; and, instead of their helping to advance it, it operates to drag them down. Have they, then, a great party to uphold them ? They have hitherto been supported by a majority in the House of Commons, though a decreasing one, but not by a party. Their party, strictly so called—the Whigs proper—are too few to keep them in office for an hour : their main tenance in office has been owing chiefly to the votes of men who profess to be of no party, and certainly are not of theirs—the Radicals of Great Britain and the anti-Protes tants of Ireland. The Irish abstain from speaking out, because their mouths are kept full with patronage ; and now and then an English Radical is silenced with an appointment, as in the case of their sly tor mentor, Mr. C. Buller, and in the astounding in stance of Mr. D. W. Harvey, whose vituperation of them was equalled only by their reprobation of him. But, generally speaking, the Radicals of Great Britain seek nothing for themselves. What they want is to ad vance their doctrines—disinterested lovers or mischief for its own sake. Of the Ministry they speak with the utmost contempt : they have gone on assisting it in the hope of its effecting some organic changes ; but finding that it dares not run the risk of alienating the Court and certain of its aristocratical allies by doing what these Radicals think in dispensable, they are mow beginning to talk a malcontent language, and to say (ungratefully enough to be sure, after all the pernicious attempts which the Whigs have male to oblige them), that if no more of what they call Reform is to be had from these Whigs than might be ob tained from a Conservative Government, it will be better to let in the Conservatives, who know their business and stick to their principle, such as it is, than to go on with a set of people who are not men of business at all, and stick to no thing but their places. As soon as one half score of Radi cals in the House of Commons act upon this opinion the Whigs are gone. We know that the Radicals have shown themselves very patient in practice : they have certainly grumbled a great deal at getting no more, and yet have come numerously to the rescue on important divisions. But this disposition has shown signs of ahatemtMt, and we suspect can be little relied on for a future session. For not only in the House of Commons, but out of doors too, the zeal of the same party has been falling away—so decidedly indeed, that their organs of the Press are now perpetually lamenting the dullness of political feeling and decay of pa sti eistri through ail the country. Meanwhile the Conser vatives have advanced in numbers, knowledge, and organi zation : the working classes have taken up the principles of o id order and good government ; and demonstrations not a little ominous to many a ‘V hie and Radical representa tive are exhibiting themselves in towns where, a couple of years ago, it Bout! have been unsafe to wear a watch rihand of any colour but theirs. The people, in short, have found out the delusion. As soon as they are fully knoen to be thus undeceived, a class of Members, who have n', real sympathy either "with the Whigs or with the Radicals, and have hitherto voted in favour of the Ministers only ,row a vulgar ambition or a seat in Par liament, at whatever sacrifice of independence, will gra dually gel; loose from a position no longer agreeable in t sight of their constituents, and after absenting themselves from a few divisions, by way of avoiding the appearance of too sudden a conversion, will be found in the increasing lists of the Conservatives. Each successive defection will giveeneouraaement to more, and till condemned by the nation, deserted by its allies, and prostrate before its oppo nents, its f a i t h b roken, its ords eaten, its pledges aban doned, the shabby Government will sink to its dissolution, unrepentant, unregretted and irredeemable. This is the fall to w hi c h t h e strea m ' of ev ents is certainly and not very tardily be ar i ng the tr ans i tory adventurers now afloat upon . its surface. From such a fall they rise not again. The Conservatives, so th s e ueeeedin g to the Government, will be relieved from for existence which a ne \ -, , c ,l 's i si i ty of that constant struggle Opposition, if numerically powerful, would not fail to enf orce. cir cumstanced will possess not MecreteheofliAce, which l i t s h thus worth nothing, but substantial power po wer to save and se rve their country, whi c h i s worth ev e ryt hi ng . during the last Session, by any coup d' etat , bn But if yth suc e c iden niovement in the House of Lords o r elsewheL a ser vatives had attempted the removal o f t h e Whigs, ointh w the House of C ommons and the people not yet fully wea ned from the delusion under which they had been accustomed to support a Whig Administration, what w ou ld h ave been th e consequence ? In the first place, it is f ar f rom certain that any such attempt would have succeed e d, even for a season. It would certainly have had little countenance from the Court. But suppose that, for the time, the Whigs could have been expelled from o ffi ce. H ave we forgotten the result of such a n experiment under Willi am If.? The present Sovereign would not have been /css favourable to their restoration than her predecessor was. Could you then have relied on .the people ? Let the pulsion be the p eo pl e 's act, and the people will back it; but Jet it have been th e ac t of the Conservatives against those 'Ministers whom the people brought in, and the pe ople would have resi s t e d it as an ag gression against them selves. Restored to power a third time, the Ministers would have had a new term of office, and begun afresh that pernicious career which you are so solicitous to close. Another circumstance, of the greatest importance to these considerations, is, that the Session which has jest expired was the opening of a new Parliament. If the alienation of the people from the Whigs bad been sufficient for the desired object (which the very results of :the elections pros e that it was not), still the Conservatives Were we to judge of the state and prospects of the country from what is contained in the columns of our Tory Contemporaries, and, above all, of the cr:alifieationa of the present Government for the due administration of the duties of their respective offices, we should be inclined to aver, first, that the country was almost in a state of disso lution ; and, seconcty, that it had never before been dis graced by a Ministry so thoroughly incapable, ineffic;eat, and unwise, as that upon which our gracious Sovereign has been p'eased to stamp the seal of her approb ition. There are the French legions in Africa, say they, forgetting that it was under a 'Tory Government that they made good their footing at Algiers—there is the Black Sea hermetically sealed against all vessels of war except those which bear the Russian flag, forgetting, also, that they opened the way for this gross invasion of the freedom of commerce—there is Canada in a state of rebellion, forgetting that by their unjust conduct to the native population, they laid the foundation, years ago, of the rebellion which has broken out, but is now i n th e happy course of being subdued— there is Persia ready to be swallowed up by Russia, and our Indian territories exposed to an invasion which cannot fail to be successful—and finally, there is the quarrel be tween the Paella of Egypt and the Sultan, of which Rus sia will take advantage, and which can only terminate in appending the T ur ki s h to t h e a l rea dy overgrown empire of Russia! What a ca t a lo gue o f h orrors ! What a list of dan gers ! " Wars, and rumours of wars," are the daily food of our Tory Contemporaries ; and yet, if we walk into the City and inquire the price of Government securities, we find no alarm—no dissatisfaction—no fear of coming dan ger—no expectation of any " untoward event." Busi ness proceeds pleasantly and smoothly—no one apprehends the slightest danger for his property by the outbreak of a War—commercial orders are received and executed with due regularity, and every countenance is radiant with hope that every black cloud has passed away, and that a pros perous trade,externally and internally,is based upon a sounder foundation than previously it ever had occasion to boast of. Strange blindnesses on the part of practical men. The country is in a state of ruin, according to the Tory jour nals ; and yet the sharpest wits in the sharpest and greatest metropolis in the world, will run headlong into the et ! A gulf! Al as f or J ohn Bul l —he i s cutt i ng h i s own throat, and penaltyycannot , be made to believe that death will b e th e what a s a d fi g u i e Minist ers cu t d ur i ng the session — a ll their measures rejected or maimed— Toryism triumphant, an d Lib era li sm at a sa d di scount. Now, we have heard persons asserting that, save and excepting s n in the world ; but s boasts hame. o ” 1 the h r e e y s result of not attempt it , th a ce'ayvataw..ser l e ef t t he to mo th st e re T sp e e r c ie ta s b t l o e I to hide it. Nay, they boast of it with greater thebold e n m e e s p L i t e an "n . l e i Y worstglosrtYru inm pet theirin . e g tr a a % l a c ay eb ier . !io nour upon Fleet-street e m t - o s t s r t e e h te honourable lc boast am They. are as chastity haetf their ever of f ler in i disgracedroud the streets of London. villainy, and cast that reproach upon Minister': would infinitely better suit themselves. The session w as , ever, of good results. Granted, and why aasit so ? how cause her Majesty's Ministers did dot bring forward good measures ? Oh, no—the country pealed with approbation of them. Why then ? Because the representatives of the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1838. people of England disapproved of them ? Certainly not.' They passed them by large majorities. What, then, was the cause ? A Tory House of Lords, born to corruption —nursed in spoliation—living upon the labour of the people—yea, having the baseness and the meanness to take a tithe of their hard-earned money in the shape of pen'io!s, and at the same time holding up their hands against every resolution calculated to enlarge their pri vileges or or to augment their comforts. People of Eng land, is this usurpation to be tolerated much longer ? Are your own representatives to be your law-makers, or an irre sponsible House of Lords, over whom you Lave no con troul ?—Morning Advertiser. There is something exceedingly touching in the kind, heartfelt, and paternal tone of eloquence in which the Emperor. Ferdinand of Austria addressed, the other day, the States and Deputies of the Tyrol. In language that borrows its interest from its s implicity he speaks without' reserve, and without the cold constraint of the formality of courts, the emotions of the father of hi s people. "It is with joy," says the Emperor, " that I have some among you, my dear people of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The solemn oath of fidelity which you are desirous of swearing to me, through your States and re presentatives, proceeds, as was the case with your fathers, from tried and faithful hearts. My heart receives them with the same emotion as did my ancestors—as did my father, .who now reposes in God. And so it w ill continue to be. The Lord, who governs the desti nies of empires, has hitherto, on every occasion, blessed such a bond with increased prosperity, and times of severe • trial have only made it more firm. I will, therefore, my beloved, be yourfather, even as my father has handed you over to me as his children." The closing passage of this interesting and pathetic address is particularly beautiful—" Carefully preserve your religious spirit—your simplicity of manners—your ancient truth, vigour, and endurance—your filial reliance on the care of your Sovereign : and with these be assured, assembled States and Representatives of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, of my imperial and paternal grace and favour." These are not empty words, coming as they do from the lips of so good a man—so just and benevolent a monarch as Fer dinand of Austria. A Sovereign who is as incapable of exercising absolute power to grind and oppress his subjects, like Nicholas of Russia, as he is of practising the low arti fices to catch a hollow popularity—theclap-trop contrivances for public stage effect, which distinguish Louis Pbilippe,who is only the "Citizen-King" in his speeches, but the despot in his acts. He who has taken care that the liberties of France should not endure much longer than the " three days of July," in which so much blood flowed to secure them, who has been the incessant, unrelenting persecutor of' the Press ever since it helped to raise him to a throne, is, in the tropes and metaphors of the artificial eloquence of courtly deception, a clever and not unsuccessful actor. But one sentence of the simple truth—the truly paternal kindness which the Emperor Ferdinand addresses to his people is worth all the flourishes of rhetoric that ever ob tained for Louii Philippe the momentary acclamations of the most theatrical people of the civilized world. Dur ing the time that Ferdinand has now been on the throne of his ancestors, the blood of not one of his mil lions of Austrian subjects has flowed upon the scaffold. One man was condemned to death for murder in the second year after his accession ; but his heart revolted against the barbarous punishment which the law still retains for that offence, and he commuted the sentence to im prisonment for life—a punishment equally coercive with death, but which gives the offender opportunity and induce ment to repentance, and does not destroy in the minds of the people the salutary notion of the sacredness of life which Princes and legislatures should ever cultivate and guard. The spirit of religion which breathes through the Emperor's speech—the entire and unqualified dependance which it expresses and inculcates upon the will of the all-ruling Providence in whose sight nations are but " dust upon the balance," while he cares for the meanest of his creatures, might shame the " enlightened libe rality" of many of our British " Reformers," who would achieve for the people the melancholy—the fatal triumph of emancipating themselves from the " yoke of religion," and exalting their free natures to a level with those of the " beasts that perish," by blotting the name of Divine Pro vidence from their acts and their remembrance. But the true British patriot will say to the English people in nearly the words of the Emperor Ferdinand, " Carefully preserve .your religious spirit—your simplicity of manners—your an cient truth, vigour, and endurance—your filial allegiance to your Sovereign, and hereditary regard for the ancient in stitutions of your country." "In these things your high minded and glorious ancestors found the elements of em pire, and as they are prelerved or abandoned, so empire will be maintained or lost."—Morning Herald. We believe that the extravagant vanity and prepoAerous injustice of mere party were never before carried to such outrageous and ridiculous exc,ss as they arc now by the Whig-Radical Ministerialists. Not only all moderation, but all consistency is forgotten in the violence of their deter mination that whatever happens on their side is right, and whatever is not for their interest is wrong. We can scarcely point out a stronger instance of this almost insane extravagance of party prejudice, than the fact that eve n they—the Ministerialists—use the term " O'Connellism" as a term of reproach when they desire to bring into dis credit any one who is in the habit of addressing the peopl e in different places against the policy of the present Go vernment. That very O'Connellism which is to their official existence as the air they breathe is to their na tural existence, for if they have it not they die ; even that, or what they choose to consider a resemblance of it, is stigmatized by them, when used against them! And what can we infer from this, but their inward consciousness that the very means by which they officially exist is, when considered by itself, reproachful and disgraceful, but yet rejoiced in by them • because it serves the interests of their party, and maintains them in the exercise of authority and the receipt of emolu ment ? O'Connellism they believe to be wrong—when put in operation a7ainst them they stigmatise it as infamous —but being with thenn it is extolled as the manifestation of the national will of Ireland in their favour, and against their Conservative opponents. Again, when they would point out the danger of " Universal Suffrage"—a danger which they never thought of warning the public egotist while the advocates of Universal Suffrage were also advocates of the Ministry—they become very vehement in their description of the gross ignorance of the Irish psa sentry. They do not scruple to avow that " there are thousands of the Irish peasantry utterly incapable of giving an independent vote." But when they have to give an account of popular meetings in Ireland to make a de monstration in favour of the existing Government, we then hear n o thi ng o f th e gross i gnorance of these peasants. On the contr a ry, the multitude is spoken of as a right pa triotic an d mos t rat i ona l mu lti tu d e , w h o se verdict in favour of the Ministry is worthy of being held in high ac count, although opposed to the sense of the English nation. Uni versa l S u ff rage w o uld a t once annihilate the Whig Ministry—thereibre its absurdity is shown by refer ence to the miser a ble incapacity of tne Irish multitude. But p o p u l ar support i s very muc h wan ting, to the continued exist ence o f t h e Whi g Ministry—therefore as they can ob tain it on ly i n I re l an d, t h e same I r i s h multitude is referred to on oth er occas i ons as very ca p a ble of an intelligent opinio n ! L arge assem bli es o f t h e people in England for politi ca l p urposes are now con d emn ed by the Ministerialists with the ut mos t bitt erness , am ounting even to abusiveness of lang uage . S uc h assem bl ages are attacked as " reckless mobs." The speec h es ma d e at them are called " mob orations," and th e p ersons who speak are called " mob orators." \Vhence this change from the language held by 'the very sam e p ersons b ut a f ew years ago ? Si m ply thi s : that now " th e mo b s " are aga i nst t h e Mi n i sters , while " the w Re form o f teyeengar t ia years a eof the sn ago oy were in loagitation,nufpibltl,hirgs w e e n e the were s iei e nti e farconductst' more s.ofa violentand At tl e p than language of these mob u a sr are;w but the Whig-Radical Ministerialists, so far from having any , fault to find with them, did nothing but chaunt their praises. Subsequently to the Reform Bill also, it was their fashion to designate the resolutions of mobs as " the voice of the people," and this voice they insisted ought to be of sufficient force to overbear the decisions of /be Upper House of Parliament. They complained that the voice of the people, i. e. the decisions of mob meetings, and the vo tes of the House of Commons taken t oget h er, h a d no t the force of law, independently of the House o f • Lords, and vowed that the country never would have justice until the authority of the Peers was swept down by the united authority of mob and Commons. And all this was merely because the !nob was on their side ; for now that it is not so, they are far more sarcastic and harsh than ever the Tories were, in holding up, not only to ridicule, but to hatred, the dangerous ignorance of the political multi tude ! Such is the consistency—such the fairness—such the disinterested justice of Whig-Radical partisans! But they go even beyond what we have already described ; for though they are so afraid of the Radical multitude that they assail it with all manner of hatred and scurrility, yet, because they are even more afraid of the Tories, who en counter th!s multitude and succeed against it, they also are abused for their successful opposition to " mob orations," and " perilous ignorance." We found in a Ministerial Jour nal the other day an account of an affair at Kidderminster, in which it was expressly stated that the Conservatives had met the Radicals and got the better of them even in a popular meeting, so that the Radicals had to sheer off, and leave the ground in the possession of the Conservatives. On turning to the leading columns of the same Journal in which this account appeared, we find the Radicals that had even:bled at Kidderminster reproached with ignorance, self•conceili and arrogance, while the party who succeeded in rendering all these charming requisites for interference in political matters of no avail on the occasion in•question, are repro seated as " fawning Tories," and as " a proud and unfeel- jog oligarchy !" Thus we find that because a mob of Bir mingham unionists, once the pride and delight of Whig- Radical officials, are now opposed to those officials, they are ignorant, self-conceited, and arrogant. And as if this instance of the consistency and candour of Whig-Radi calism were not enough, we further find that the Tories, although they opposed these ignorant, self-conceited, and arrogant people, are "fawning Tories"—fawning on those they thwarted and put down I—and besides be ing " fawning," they are " proud," " unfeeling," and " oligarchical!" But the Tories also are opposed to the Whig-Radical officials, and therefore though they oppose what is bad, they must get no credit for it, but on the contrary, be abused. Nothing is good but that which the Whig-Radical Government does. Though the sneer of scorn, and the hiss of contempt attend it, both at home and abroad—everywhere except among the Irish peasantry, who are so ignorant as to be " utterly incapable of exercising an independent vote"—yet according to the assertion of the partisans of that Government, whatever it does is right, and all are ignorant or worse who do not agree to that asser tion. There is, and there can be, no rational excuse for such outrageous distortion of all truth and decency as these Whig-Radical self-glorifications exhibit ; but the cause is evident enough. Throughou t this vast empire the Whig-Radical Ministerialists are destitute of anything like independent support, and for want of external aid, they are thrown upon a more vigorous ex ercise of their powers of self-commendation. In the matter of praise they are thrown entirely upon their own resources. Having no one else to give them a good word, they adore themselves with a desperate idolatry to which the united powers of vanity and impudence never soared before. Nor is this to be •.wondered at. Do they not see that they re tain the advantages of Government? Does not the num ber of applications for places attest the fact that they are considered to have power, and do not the receipts of each revolving quarter-day prove that if they do not obtain the " golden opinions" of all sorts, or of any sort of people, they do obtain something else golden, to the full appreciation of which their understandings are more level ? They have pay, patronage, and public contempt. They are not scru pulous, and they are quite content to take the lot even thus made up.— Morning Post. THE BITER BIT.—On Sunday morning, a rail road man, called Jem, went into the inn at West Haddon, and, leaving his basket in the kitchen, went into the tap to drink a pint of beer. The landlord, being tempted by curio sity, opened the basket, in which he found a leveret, and, doubting Jem's either being licensed or allowed to shoot, he thought he ran no risk of being publicly complained of if he rung the changes upon his guest, which he did by abstracting the hare and putting a dead cat in its place. On getting home, Jem found out the fraud, and returning with his basket to the inn, he found mine host had gone to church, and being past 11 o'clock, the servant refused to draw him any ale. After much persuasion he induced the servant to leave the kitchen to get him some spring water, and in her absence he opened a large pot on the fire, in which was a fine leg of mutton, and very ingeniously exchanged the tabby for it, carrying home the prize. Jim sent his brother there after church time, making him fully acquainted with the facts, and the landlord, wanting some broth, ordered a basin out of the pot ; not liking either colour or flavour, he caused an examination, and instantly detected the cause and its author on witnessing the cat's mortal remains. " Oh," said Jem's brother, " I dares for to say that there cat first eat the mutton, and then committed suicide to avoid detection I"—Northampton Herald. A woman was found dead by one of the sportsmen on Inehgroundle-hill on Monday the lath current. Tile body was so much decayed that it could not be removed, and was consequently interred on the spot. She had black hair, a full set of teeth, and seemed to have been a middle-aged, stout-made woman. She had on a grey woolsey gown—a light blue upper woolsey petticoat—a secoad one, not parti cularly described—and an under one of woollen, woven on wires. Above her stays, she had a man's vest, with an in side pocket, in which were found 16s. 6d. in silver, neatly rolled up in a piece of cloth. She had on one stout shoe, and the other lying a few yards from her. She had also a basket, in which were two tea-spoons, a pair of scissors, and several neatly rolled-up packages, but all empty ; in the basket, there were also fourteenpence halfpenny in copper. She had a black and red tartan shawl, and a merino cap, which seemed to have fitted tight, and was drawn down upon her face. All her clothes had been good but by the time she was found, they were so much decayed that no swatches could be taken. Three or four weeks ago, a man was found about two miles farther north, in the head of Glen muick parish, and buried where he was found. It is probable that they had been travelling together; and, in endeavouring to cross the Caple Mount from Glenmuick to Clove, they had perished in the storm about the middle of January last. This is more likely, because the two tea-spoons had been evidently used ; and two knives were also lying near the place where the woman was found. After the middle of January, the snow was so deep that no person could have gone to the hill. —Edin burgh Courant. THE M•N OF MANY WlvEs.—On Wednesday Captain Willmett had the hardihood to visit Rochester, so lately the scene of his disgraceful conduct, when he and his father were subjected to the indignant chastisement of the mob, particularly the women. On the above-named day these gentlemen arrived at the .Crown Inn in a carriage and four, where they ordered a dinner for several people at eight O'clock, and went out into the city. The news that Willmett, the husband of a dozen wives, was there, spread like wild fire, and the Captain and his father were surrounded by hundreds of people, principally females, who proceeded front one assault to another, until they rolled them both in the mud, stole their watches. jewellery, and money, and ultimately tore their clothes from off their backs. The Captain ran up the Bull-yard, and cliptbed over a high wall, having a large quantity of glass bottles on the top, by which he must have cut himself greatly. .The landlord of the Bull took the old gentleman back and put him into the custody of the polies', who conducted him out of the town. In the evening the father and son returned to the Crown inn ; but the landlord turned them out of the place, and they were under the dis agreeable necessity of going back to Gravesend after twelve o'clock at night. It had been their intention to have shown off at Canterbury races. On Saturday, Mr. Wooler, the solicitor, applied to the city magistrates for a search warrant against Ra chael.Larnb, who had stolen Captain Willmett'agold watch and geird chain, but the bench refused to grant it; they granted a warrant against Miss Lamb for taking the watch, &c., but she could not be found. John Alexander Willmett appeared, and stated that he resided at George-street, Bryanstone-square, and was formerly a captain in the 17th Lancers, and stated that the riot occurred on the preceding Wednesday, when he and his father were robbed of their watches, chains, money, shirt .pins, &c., by the ladies of Rochester. The Magistrates said that if the parties complained against were not produced, they could not act. Mr. Wooler made inquiry of Mr. Birch, the solicitor, as to where Lamb eas to be found, who re fused to give the information. After an acrimonious and per sonal conversation between the legal gentlemen had subsided, the case was adjourned to Wednesday. —Maidstone Journal. DUELS AND DEATH.-We perceive, recently, several appalling cases of deliberate murder and suicide, by this fashionable mode of settling personal quarrels. Broils which had been begun in houses of infamy, or over the gamb ling-table, have come to be terminated in this soi-disant gen tlemanly mode of giving satisfaction. We regard the chal lenger and the challenged as, in principle and motive, guilty of both crimes—such crimes as the Scriptures assure us that no one being guilty of them has eternal life. The seconds and medical attendants to the field are abettors of their guilt. The brand of the murderer should be fixed upon such gentlemen, and their conduct reprobated by the concurrent voice of all enlightened members of society. Let them bear the execra tion, rather than enjoy the sympathy, of their fellow-men.— Scottish Pilot. An inquest was held at Paddington on Saturday on the body of a young man named Rye, a cabinet maker, which was found in the Regent's Canal. The evidence tended to show that the deceased had fallen into the Canal accidentally, having bee'n last seen alive in the neighbourhood in a state of intoxication. On Thursday, the body of a male child, about two months old, was discovered in the pond in the park of Mark's. hall, Harlow. A woman, named Bliss, the daughter of a gar dener, named Farrell, residing in the village, had been seen to return e ar i r riv cu e m st b to y the a nL coen deL:onundo caused do n o soon suspicion,cafat c e h r w , ar i d t as h a n dw i 00 1 du wast in t hhefeorli followed wa m ne s td , and . upt p Thist to town, given into custody, and brought down to Harlow.. On Friday an inquest was held. in the course of which it was p (wed that the child died of suffocation, having previously re ceived- a violent contused blow on the head. At the ad u jrned inquest on Friday, the Jury returned a verdict of , 1 ) Wilful Murder against Bliss," who was fully committed to the County gaol on the Coroner's warralit. The circum. stance Herald. e has created neighbourhood... intense interest in the EssexA GREEK BEAUTY.—Our hostess, though not, strictly speaking, a beauty, was a pretty lady-like person, and with all the style and manners of a leader of ton in the centre of Greek and Albanian fashion. Notwithstanding all her a miable qualities, I fear that in London she would not have escaped the damning character of a blue. She presumed to admire Sophocles as well as Alfieri. Her dress was in the style called Chami, or luwer Albanian ; which, when arranged by the artistes of Janina, is, for composition and colour, the mos t perfect thing in the way of costume I ever saw; and is indebted for effect neither to pearls and precious stones, nor to the false glare of gold and silver lace, nor of gaudy and con trasted colours.—. Urquhart's Travels in the East. SACRILEGE.—Last week the parish Church of Stoneleigh was broken into by some thieves, who fancying themselves no doubt to have hit upon a valuable prize, stole therefrom an iron chest, containing nothing more than the re gisters, which, however valuable as parish property, must be perfectly worthless to those who have now taken the liberty to examine the contents of the iron chest. The booty, however, being found to be not worth keeping, the thieves have been honest enough to abandon it, and the chest with its contents was found near the church the morning after it was stolen.— Covert fry Herald, PLUMS.—Yesterday, Mr. Clark received by the railway no less than four tons of plums from Worcestershire, We shall now have all the fruit of the south of England in a few hours after they are taken from tho tree. Mr. Clark in the early part of the season imported great quantities of cab. baps from Ireland,—Manchester Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE, ROBBERIES BY SERNANrs.—Yesterday Mary M'Carilly, a woman formerly in the service of Lady Longford, was placed at the bar, charged with having robbed several persons. The prisoner was an inveterate thief, and, in the exercise Of her predilection for dishonesty, robbed not only her cm• ployers, but even her fellow servants. She quitted the ser vice of Lady Longford about three months since, and several articles were missed immediately after her departure, con sistiLig of linen, lace, and wearing apparel. She was next in the employ of Mr. Henderson, of Honiton-street, Kensington, where she remained but a few days, and they were robbed of three sheets, a silver spoon, some table cloths, &c. She next took a situation at Mrs. Tate's, in South-parade, Kensington, where she contrived to steal a quantity of her Riistress's wear ing apparel, and a silk gown, a table cloth, and some lace be longing to Mrs. Hares, who resided in the same house. Amon g st others who had been a sufferer at Lady Longford's was Mary Ann King, a fellow -servant, who gave information to the police, which led to the prisoner's apprehension. Mr. BURRELL inquired if any of the prosecutors were in at tendance? The constable said they were, but declared hey would rather lose their property than proceed against the prisoner. They all wished her punished, but not one of them seemcd in clined to be the means of effecting it. One of the cases, that of Mary Ann King, was then taken against the prisoner, and she was fully committed for trial. Mary Ann King expressed herself much dissatisfied on dis covering that she was bound over to prosecute. UNION-HALL. Yesterday John Brabon, Henry Bailey, John Herbert, and William Ohey, described as followers of Joanna Southcote, were brought before Mr. Jeremy, for occasioning an obstruc tion in the streets. The four defendants, who were brought up by the police, and followed by a crowd, were seen in the neighbourhood of the Surrey theatre, carrying banners, on which were inscribed poetical effusions in praise of Joanna Southcote. The de fendants were waving the banners and giving utterance to the praises of Joanna and the young Shiloh ; and one man who escaped was holding forth and promulgating the doctrines of their departed friend. _ _ Sergeant Price, division L, succeeded in obtaining posses sion of the gaudy-coloured flags, and also an ornamental piece of wood, in the shape of a beadle's wand, with a dove carved on the top of it, with the follov.ing inscription :—" How butiful upon the mountains is the feet of him who publishes pace and saith unto Sion, thy God." There were several quotations from Scripture on the banners, all of which, how ever, were mis- spelt. The sergeant said, when he arrived oppo site the Surrey theatre, a great mob of persons had collected around the defendants, who went on in the most extravagant manner, and were not intimidated when desired to move on, and told that it was against the law to obstruct the thorough fare. The man who was preaching after some time gave over, and mingled amongst the crowd, but the four defendants still stood their ground, one and all exclaiming that they had come there in a good cause, and that they should not be removed except by force, and that whoever interfered with them would meet with that punishment hereafter which they so well me rited. The sergeant, however, with the assistance of some of the policemen, took the defendants, their dove, and their ban res-5, away to the station-house. Mr. JEREMY inquired whether any of the defendants were known previously to the police ? Sergeant Price knew Herbert and Bailey ; the former was a fellow who was in the habit of distributing handbills and pla cards of the most disgusting character about the streets. On the present occasion he was one of the noisiest of the de fendants, and kept announcing to the populace "that Joanna's call to the mission was in 1792, and that her victory over the Prince of Darkness occurred in 1802." Bailey was a coster monger by trade, but since he had become a disciple of Joanna Southcote, he sold his donkey, gave up crying cabbages about the streets, and occupied his time now in spreading her doc trines. The sergeant added that the other two men who car ried banners were unknown to the police until their apprehen sion, but it was believed they were both shoemakers. Mr. JEREMY asked if there were any persons present who knew anything of the defendants ; and, if there were, they might come forward and state what they had to say about them. A well-dressed middle-aged woman, who said her name was Oaks, stepped up to the table in front of the Magistrate, and making a curtsey, addressed him thus:—" I know Mr. Bailey, the costermonger, your worship."—(Laughter.) • A policeman here interrupted her, and said that Bailey had been pointed out to him as a bad character. Mrs. Oaks—l deny it ;heis as good a young man as ever broke the bread of life, and I defy anv one say there is a stain upon his character. He is one of the props of the nation, and all he wants is to make converts to our cause. Mr. JEREMY—I have nothing to do with your religious te nets, but let them be what they may, it will not aid ysur cause as you call it, to employ persons who are not at all qua lified for such a task. The defendants must not be suffered to cause an obstruction of the thoroughfare, and the man Herbert is a person who is known to the police as a dissolute fellow, in the habit of circulating infamous handbills and placards. The Magistrate then said, that they were quite welcome to make as many converts as they pleased, but it must not be done by such means as that which they had adopted in carrying banners about the streets, and collecting mobs which gave every facility to pickpockets. Mrs. Oaks had a spare room in herhouse, and said that in fu ture Bailey and the rest of the followers of Joanna Southcote should come there and deliver their sentiments on her doctrines. Mr. JaitrAir said they might discuss the subject where they pleased, so that they did not obstruct the streets. The Ala gistrate then said that he should make Herbert find bail, and, as he was well known to be in the habit of distributing vile handbills about the streets, to encourage a hypocrite of this kind would soon bring their doctrines into discredit. Mrs. Oaks—We were not aware that he was a bad man. I know Mr. Bailey and Mr. Brabon, and I know them both to be good and faithful men to the cause. Herbert said, that if he was let off this time he would never carry a banner again, for Johanna Southcote or any of her followers ; he was inveigled into it, and people tried to make him out worse than he really was. The other defendants said that now that they were aware that it was against the law to act as they had done, they should meet in future at Mrs. Oaks's house for the purpose. Upon this understanding the defendants were discharged, with the exception of Herbert, who was held to bail. Mrs. Oaks applied for the restoration of the dove and ban ners which were delivered up to her, and she bore them away on her shoulders. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Ann Lyons was pracedai --- the bar before Mr. Witham, charged by police constable G 24 with being drunk and disorderly. The constable, yesterday morning, about half-past three o'clock, found the prisoner, with several other individuals, creating a disturbance, and knocking- at the doors of the inha bitants in the neighbourhood of White Horse-alley, St. Se pulchre's, when he remonstrated with them, and the prisoner becam violent and abusive, and, being drunk, he took her into custody._ _ _ Mr.WITHAM asked her what she had to say ? Prisoner — I was not drunk. I heard that Lady Holland's mob was going to proclaim Bartlemy fair; so I went out at eleven o'clock to see them ; but I made no noise, and had nothing to drink. Mr. WITHAm inquired what she meant by " Lady Holland's mob?" It was stated that on the rtiorninrr of the first day of the fair, a gang of drovers and blackguards,' who styled them selves " Lady Holland's mob," proceeded around Smithfield and its neighbourhood, knocking at doors, and performing a certain ceremony, which they called " proclaiming the fair," and caused the greatest disturbance. The practice was adopted every year. Mr. WITHAM admonished the prisoner, and discharged her on paying one shilling. Dennis Carroll, an athletic hist.= in, was placed at the bar, charged with having committed a brutal assault upon Margaret Carroll, his wife. The policeman stated that on Saturday night last he was in Saffron-hill, when his attention was attracted by the screams of a female, and cries of murder, and on entering the place he found the prisoner belabouring his wife in an unmerciful manner, she lying en the floor insensible, and saturated with blood. The prisoner was taken to the station-house, where his wife attended, and charged him with the assault, and stated that he had beaten her head about with a candlestick. He added that his wife was outside the office, but would not ap pear to prosecute him. Mr. WITUAM said that such savage conduct ought not to be sanctioned, and ordered the constaVe to go and fetch her in which he did, and the wife, a well-dressed Irishwoman, was sworn, but she reluctantly took the oath. Mr. WITHAM—Pray, how did the prisoner assault you ? Wife--Sure he came home afther he had been taking a dhrop, and becase I hadn't his supper immediately ready for him, he knocked me down and bate me; but sure I was as much in fault as himself, and I don't want to nun him. Inspector Dewing, of the G division—l never saw a wo man's head in so shocking a state ; it was cut and bleeding. She was completely saturated with blood. Mr. WrrnAxt—With what did he beat you? Wife—Only wid his fisht. Inspector—She said it was with a candlestick. Wife—l never did. Sure he has always been a good husband to be, and will be again ; I wouldn't wish for a better. Mr. WITHAM—Such brutal conduct ought to be punished. Wife—No, I hope not, Sir. I forgive him, and would not have him punished at all. Mr. WITHANI—I shall order him to find bail. - —..—.... Wife—Och I den if you do he will lose his work, and den what shall Ido ? Sure he only bate rne, and I desarved it. —( Laughter.) Mr. WITHAM (to the prisoner)—You must find bail. Wife—Och, den, I hopes not. Let him come home wid me. The prisoner was taken from the bar. Wife—What bail do you want, masther ?—She was in formed two housekeepers in 201. each. She then spoke to the prisoner, and ran off for the purpose of procuring the requisite bail. WORSHIP-STREET. Anne Melsom, George Illetsoin, her brother, and Sarah Shaw, were brought up for final examination, charged with having administered a certain soporiferous drug in a quantity of gin to a widow woman named Anne Robinson, and with afterwards having robbed her of thirty sovereigns, a diamond pin, a mourning ring, and a silver watch, with appendages. On Friday night last the prosecuti ix met the female pri soners, one of whom ( Sarah Shaw) she had a slight acquaint ance with ; the prisoners asked her to have some gia, after which they invited her to their home in North King's-court, Hoxton, where they gave her some gin, but after takim: which she fell into a state of stupor. The prisoner George getsent, was in the room when the prosecutrix took the gin. On her awaking about two o'clock on Friday morning, she found that the prisoners had gone, and that they had cut away her pooket in which was the above property. The same afternoon the prisoners were seen by a man of the name of Isaac Neivton• who lodged in the house that the prisoners resided in, would the prisoners observed to him that they supposed "he wont not blow," end stated that they were going to Birmingham hut Newton on meeting with Richards, No. 101, City police man, gave him information, and who was just in time to aPPr e ' bend them as they wee going off in a cab. Richards told the driver to go to the stati o n-house, where, on searching the m ale prisoner, he found eleven sovereigns, and four half-sovereir ist and the watch in the body of the cab. He and Sarah S haw/ had bought an entire change of clothes. The latter bad bonnet on worth 30s. The prisoners were fully comm for trial. itted EAST INDIA SHIPPING. off o Arrivals, Sept. 3.—The Ivanhoe, Gibson, from Benga ., - Falmouth, sailed April 19, St. Helena, July 11. Arrivals at Batavia.—The Veronica, Drockson, April 15 ' from Rotterdam; Claudius Cicilis, Groen, from Amsterdam; Virginie, Gabrielle, from Bordeaux ; Elizabeth, Vinez, f r°nl Singapore ; Providence, April 20, from Macao • Sia e re' Beadle, April 21, from Sourabaya, and sailed April 2 2 P t°l : Singapore ; Susanna, Hoffman, April 24, from SourabeY, s .: her Majesty's ship Triton, April 25, from the Tcxel ; Via, April 25, from Rotterdam ; Levant, Dumaresque, 11.° — Canton. Departures from Batavia.—The William Brown, Brow"' April 15, for Singapore ; Brenda, Wood, April 20, for Pe" nambuco. Arrivals at Samarang.—The Paris, King, April 14, a nd the Royal Sovereign, Moncrieff, April 15, from Batavia. 1. Arrivals in the Straits of Sunda.—The Henry W e ,, lesley, Williams, April 12, from King George's Son for Batavia; Alexander, M'Lachlan, from Liverpool, f° China. The Carnatic, Richards, which left the Mauritius, on t b ! 18th of April, for London, put back to the Mauritius, havi n t" experienced very rough weather off Cape L'Aguillas. Arrival at Singapore.—The packet Schirling, from tba Cape of Good Hope. Ships Spoken With.—The Frances Ann, Hay, fr, °lll Liverpool to Calcutta, July 28, in lat. 12. N., long. W., by the John Knox, arrived from Singapore; the Ell s : both, Fokkens, from Africa to Batavia, May 17, in the Stra iw of Sunda; the Straat Sunda, Maider, from Amsterdam t° Batavia, Aug. 13, in lat. 49. N., long. 9. W. PYRAMID OF CHEOPS.—This monument of pride, science, or superstition—Syho knows which ? It building while Abraham was in Egypt; Joseph a nd ; et brethren must have seen the sun set behind it every daY,t o sojourned in Egypt; it must have been the last object 0 0 , s ~e , and the departing Israelites lost sight of as they quitted land of bondage ; Pythagoras, Herodotus, Alexander, he Caliphs—it has been the goal of nationsl lost n ations 13 %, pilgrimised to its foot, and looked up, as their c o mmon s cestors did before them, in awe and humility—and new, o strangers, from the " ultima Thule" of the ancients, Brit a be f severed from the whole world by a wate r y lin e , Which t jr , considered it impious to transgress, stand here on th e sunt ll3- d, and, looking round, see a desert where once the " the el ° 1 1 0 ( rapt towers, the gorgeous p a l aces ," th e temp l es and toroureit Memphis, arose in their calm beauty, and Wisdom 'l c , among the groves of palm and acacia—solitary now and raf fi serted, except by the wandering Arab and his camel.— Lyndsay's Letters on Egypt. i 5 PLEASURES OF EAST ERN T RAVEL . — There none of that languor and feverishness that so generally re ; s , - i . from travelling on wh ee l s . Th e very hardships bring e tt •I;01 ments with them, in invigorated health, braced nervesc e , elevated spirits. You are in immediate contact with as":. c st every circumstance of scenery and climate becomes of int e ,„' c al and value, and the mi nutest i nc id ent of country, or of 1 e. habits, cannot escap e o b servat i on. A b urning sun may 661,0" ;0 times exhaust, or a summer storm may drench you ; but -ed can be more exhilirating than the sight of the length ° , troop of variegated and gay cost umes d as hi ng at full col along, to the crack of the Tartar whip, and the wild whtl e ir of the surrigee? what mo re pi c t uresque t h an to watch tine reckless career over upland or dale, or along the waving e io% of the landscape,—bursting away on a dewy morn, 0 ,,r , r 2 " home" on a rosy eve ? Ur qu h ar t' s T rave l s i n the -Da s t. the AMERICAN LAKES.--The alarming rise of o ur waters in the great lakes continues, and is now nearit st o feet. Whole farms have been submerged, and wbarfs s e. beginning to disappear. The phenomenon is rationyv t he counted for by some fur trade r s wh o recen tly arr ived i'' e a to States ; but their explanation is anythi ng b u t crlculat Had, decrease the apprehension. Th e y sa y th a t a large rod which had front time immemorial discharged itself into dr ift, son's Bay, had been impended by the accumulation of v i c e wood, stumps, &c., and its entire volume turned intt ei ges Superior. Such an event mi g ht p ro d uce v ast eu oers throughout whole regions of North A mer i ca . If the t r il be correct, no event has taken pla ce f or cen t ur i es better w in ort ikt the investigation of geologists. —Phil a d e l p hi a Letter Chronicle. On Wednesday afternoon, a fine boy about d al years of age, son o f M r . K ay, of Spring Hill, near R"ert; whilst playing i n th e yar d adjoining his father's house, vi wa s a cart loaded with flannel pieces and two boxes of 50 5 1 1 11 standing on the b ow props, ran against one of them, w he b o esd the cart was up se t, an d one o f t he b oxes f a lli ng on his caused his death in five minutes.—Manchester Times. 005 On Wednesday last the w e ath e r was s o bolste r ea , that the packet which left Dover for Calais was un able!: b e ter that port, and consequ en tly s h e p ut b ac k an d landed passengers in our harbour.—Dover Chronicle. • .11 EXPEDITION.—The ship Jacob Fennel arrived at this port from N ew Orleans, with 1,825 ba`rir cotson, had the whole of her ca rgo un l oa d e d i n t h e ettre short space of twelve and a h a lf h ours. — Li verpoo l Che° 73. CROSBY-HALL WINE ESTABLISH —M M E io lo• 35, Bishops g at e - s t ree t- w i t hi n .—CUßß ALL and SO N beg vi i v ee• vite public notice to their stock of Old Bottled and Draught being Their Crusted Ports are of superior quality and fl a vour , a F itd shipped by ho uses o f high reputation at Oporto, and bottl e , 5 rir sedulous attenti on . Their Sherries also, with ever y other ci e c if b A lion of White Wines, are of equal character ; and ln,„ it l Wines the s ame a tt ent i on h as b een paid to quality. Cu r " f°- Son, being d es i rous t o secure that patronage which articl e !: re' first quality, a t f a i r an d remunerating profits, will mainta" spectfully submit the annexed list of cash prices : sel l 40 PER DOZ. Port, from the wood 283 to 333 Rota Tent ............... ...... 6 .. I °l Ditto, three years in bottle... 86s Cape Wines ..... Ditto, older, rich, and superior 42s Masdeti Ditto,veryold, in wood and 1 French and Rhenish ' • b ottle Sherry, excell e nt di nner w i ne 28s Pink ditto ditto ........... ' • 'l O Superior Slit rries 3Gs Pink crearriing ChamP 3 • ," •of Sherry, very tine, pale, and White ditto ditto ..... .".;;;;O ' d y brown Ditto, very delicate, and ex- 'Ditto, in pinta ............. •...' 4 no tremely pale 523 Moselle ....... ..••••;; Ditto, old brown, (rare quality) 3 5 8 2 :S H a o tt e t k ern . e . ..... ... ... ..•... ...•• 4 4 : to Madeira Madeira (by way of Calcutta), • Wines per GAPT„, to io first quality 63s to 663 Port .................. ..• `;, to 0 Ditto, in pints 3 3 3 ;Sherry... ...... ••• qs to 1 0 ....... Bucellas (finest quality) Lisbon and Mountain ..... 30s Marsala ...................... Vithmia (° 1,1 ) . Bo st Marsala, .. ..est imported, P Marsala B )idea, Is. per dozen ; hampers, ls.per dozen. 4. PATENT LEVER WA TC 6 0 With silver double-bottom cases L h 6 I . 11$ With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate on o en`e, watch can be made) is offered, with the latest iinneoecgee,, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four boles, p oo hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining to continue going while winding up, at the above price, 1 1 T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, Lim d°l4 (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street.) e. N.B.—Second-hand W a t c h es purc h ase d i n exclang BIRTHS. f On the 29th ult., at G oo d r i ng t on , D evon, th e lay ° 1 (00 Sievewright, Esq., of a daughte r . 0 On the Ist inst., at College-hill, the lady of Cha rles v, Wilde, Esq., of a daughter. Cs e On the Ist inst., at Gr eenw i c h , t h e lady of Charles t he Esq., of a daughter. o re On the 31st u lt., i n Gl oucester-place, Portman -54 Countess Metaxa, of a daughter. of MARRIED. Shee n 1 1 f On the 28th u l t . , at B uxted Church, Mr. J. ~ Vauxhall, t o Eliza, eldest daught er o f M r . Thomas 1‘'8: k o fi Buxted, Susse x . w ill' of On the 30th ult., at Bishop's Hull, near Tauntor.laughteAod, Maclean, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., to Elizabeth Mary, d grbire. the late T. Mal e t Ch atter, E sq., of Lvnchfie ld, daughter of Mrs. Freke Gunston, Frethey-cottage, 6t o, of On the Ist inst., at St. M ary ' s, N ew i ngton, Mr. 1-"sitops", of Croydon, to Emily, eldest daughter of Mr. Joh n Newington-place, Kentington, Surrey. nn bert , Ja rao e ' On the st inst., at St. Andrew s, Holborn, •sara' pie eldest son of Robert Ball, Esq., solicitor, of Dublin, to Of only daughter of James Johnstone, Esq., of Warwick -Oa' inn. oh , York' ors? On the Ist imt., a t M ary l e b one Church, Edvrart eldest son of Edward Drummond Hay, Esq., t 0 of youngest da ug ht er o f L ieutenant-Colonel Liv i ngs ton, place, Portman-square. ___---------___ e ._ __.__—— - - • ot." DIED. h I ' l 5 7 ' On the Ist inst. at his residence Ly 0 ?near at ' ed Colonel Arthur Chichester W. Crookshank, 'ne mb' n K. ---'' k a l 3w f l bi r i o ll ic youngest son of the late Judge Crooksh-rik ewtown Pr jo i3 O ", 1,0 On the 27th ult., at Austhorpe Lo . dge, near Leed' 9 Lite J° Brooke, Esq., of Clifton, near York, only son Brooke, Esq., of the former place, aged 49. o f the t 1 0 0 ~.,„ the On the 26th ult., at Merthyr Mawr, Glamorga nsu " -, Lona s ' Hon. Sir John Nicholl, Knightaged 80. ior G. Esq., on of flice 13a0yttloinultit.a,n,CLatalnweraisnhei,reragelico.tedo6f4t.he late ..-• 16 e r rY frc On the 30th ult., Julia Porteus ' , aa daughter of G e°4 ' gsfi' Esq., of West Hall, Mortlake, aged 14 days. Rob ert On the 30th ult., at Hyde House, liorsetshir e, ro l" ue r clyffe, jun., E sq . On the 27th u lt., a t Ch e lt en h am , C o l o nel Crowder, y re , of .n,,iceleY-54° ton, Yorkshire, late of the 7th Fusileers. d ssq ' On the Ist inst., at Hadley, Miss Vere, A- -- . aged 89. 1-lollan y On the 30th ult., in Craven street, Charles aged 64. --„, - o r; , f " ' tit - - London: Printed and Published by MURDO 'Y'-',-,v, ~ t h ..-, e c°oo .. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11.2, Strati', ," of Middlesex.—Tuesday, September 4, 1838. 1